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PDP-8
Thought I’d register to say thanks and hello to all the users and devs.
The persistence features of antiX and MX blew me away as I’m partial to using usb to replace all my spinning rust. 🙂 I use other persistent distros, but ran across antix by accident, and got totally absorbed in it and it’s relatives.
Special kudos for the “core” version, which for this old geezer is just a thing of beauty straight out of the box. It actually makes me want to write shell-scripts again! Maybe with just cat or ed now that the finger-memory is coming back. What a totally pleasant environment.
That’s it for now – I’m no expert, but I’m sure I can learn from all, and maybe drop a tip (old school stuff) or two for fun if nothing else. See you in the threads…
olsztyn
The persistence features of antiX and MX blew me away as I’m partial to using usb to replace all my spinning rust.
I also found USB Live implementation of antiX as the best out there. Flexibility and smart Live tools makes that ‘spinning rust’ irrelevant. Once you explore and become familiar you appreciate USB Live architecture of antiX, independence from hardware.
Inferring from your user name you used to work on PDP systems, or some another meaning?Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_ParametersThe PDP-8 thing was just a tip of the hat to what was considered the Raspberry-Pi of it’s day when room-filling mainframes ruled the day.
More than that, as a child of the 70’s listening to bands like the Moody Blues and everyone else with Mellotrons, later I got fascinated with early synthesizers like the EMS / Moogs and whatnot. I was blown away reading about the EMS guys programming their synths with a PDP-8 and developing a language for music with it. Heh, not like just anyone could own their own PDP-8 back then either, but at least it was feasible for one guy in the UK to do so.
We’ve certainly come a long way, but way before Unix was Multics, and before that the history of computing (batch > timeshare) just fascinates me. I guess it’s the spirit of using a computer that I got exposed to early on stays with me to this day. More of a spirit of creation, rather than mere consumption of other’s work is what got me turned on to Unix in particular, even if what you create is not a masterpiece. A 70’s kind of outlook. 🙂
fatmac
Welcome aboard. 🙂
There are some good live distros out there these days, but none can beat the team here.
Enjoy the command line, it’s where I started my intro to Linux too.
Linux (& BSD) since 1999
rokytnji
Howdy and Welcome.
Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsThanks guys! I think fatmac brought up the most important part – the “team”. People are more important than code. I’ve seen many good projects die on the vine, or get so diverse in mission that it just fades away.
AntiX (and sister MX) seem to have the right diversity of people to keep things healthy. I’m loving it.
Brian Masinick
The PDP-8 thing was just a tip of the hat to what was considered the Raspberry-Pi of it’s day when room-filling mainframes ruled the day.
More than that, as a child of the 70’s listening to bands like the Moody Blues and everyone else with Mellotrons, later I got fascinated with early synthesizers like the EMS / Moogs and whatnot. I was blown away reading about the EMS guys programming their synths with a PDP-8 and developing a language for music with it. Heh, not like just anyone could own their own PDP-8 back then either, but at least it was feasible for one guy in the UK to do so.
We’ve certainly come a long way, but way before Unix was Multics, and before that the history of computing (batch > timeshare) just fascinates me. I guess it’s the spirit of using a computer that I got exposed to early on stays with me to this day. More of a spirit of creation, rather than mere consumption of other’s work is what got me turned on to Unix in particular, even if what you create is not a masterpiece. A 70’s kind of outlook. 🙂
Back in the seventies when I was in high school and college I was not interested in history but over the years as I have been a part of the software transformation I have been fascinated with software history in particular.
I wrote a few graduate papers on the progression from MULTICS to UNIX to Linux and predicted that freely available software would eventually be common, not necessarily widespread on desktop systems but definitely prevalent in mobile devices.
We’ve seen a slight increase in freely available software being used by major companies like Google and Facebook, putting it into commercial products but we’ve definitely seen it in phones and mobile equipment.
I’m glad you are enjoying antiX and I have been using it, regardless of how many people recognize the great work done by this fine geographically dispersed group of people.
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Brian Masinick
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